Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Gold Edition

• A New Experience Each Time You Play: Play as one of 34 historical leaders and wage war by land, sea and air, conduct diplomacy & espionage, establish religious beliefs, and discover new technologies in your quest to build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
• Play at Your Own Pace: Jump right in with an intuitive interface that eases new players into the game. Guided by a set of trusted advisors who will explain how the game works and provide counsel for significant decisions, first-time players will be confident in the choices they make. Veterans of the series will appreciate the depth, detail and control that they are familiar with.
• Broad System Compatibility: Sid Meier’s Civilization V operates on a wide variety of systems from high-end DirectX 11 desktop PC’s to many different laptops, and is optimized for the new touch-screen Ultrabook™ devices.
• Believable World: More than just a strategy game -- the ultra-realistic visuals and immersive audio immerse you in a world with a limitless variety of vast, realistic and diverse landscapes to claim as your own.
• Huge Battles: Wars between empires feel massive with armies spreading across the landscape. The addition of ranged bombardment challenges you to develop clever new strategies to guarantee victory on the battlefield.
• Diplomacy: Negotiate with some of history’s most cunning rulers, each with a well-crafted plan for victory. City States will present a new diplomatic battleground on which the major powers of the world will vie for supremacy.
• Religion: Found a Pantheon of the Gods to cultivate Great Prophets and create a religion you can customize and enhance. Beliefs unlock custom buildings that only people of your religion can construct.
• Naval Combat and Espionage: No coastal city is safe as the navy is now split into melee and ranged ship types, enhance by the addition of the Great Admiral. Send your spies into foreign cities for surveillance, to steal advanced technologies from your competitors, or to interfere with city-state alliances.
• Multiplayer: Civilization V brings community to the forefront, allowing you to compete with other players around world and providing endless ways to rule the world.

MINIMUM

• Windows® XP SP3 / Vista SP2 / 7
• 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or 2.0 GHz AMD Athlon X2 64 Processor
• 2 GB Available System Memory
• 8 GB Available Hard Drive Space
• 256 MB Video Card (ATI HD2600 XT or better; NVIDIA 7900 GS or better; Core i3 or better integrated graphics)
• DirectX® 9.0c-compatible Sound Card
• DirectX® 9.0c
• Requires the Steam client to install and play

RECOMMENDED

• 1.8 GHz Quad Core Processor
• 4 GB Available System Memory
• 512 MB Video Card (ATI 4800 or better; NVIDIA 9800 series or better)
• DirectX® 11